[Dovecot] Can't login in IMAP server

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Feb 16 17:27:28 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 19:08 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:53 +0000, Mário Gamito wrote:
> > 
> > checkpassword(gamito at mail2.telbit.pt,192.168.84.128): Executed: 
> > /usr/local/bin/auth_imap /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/checkpassword-reply
> > Feb 16 15:38:32 mail2 dovecot: auth(default): 
> > checkpassword(gamito at mail2.telbit.pt,192.168.84.128): Received no
> > input
> > Feb 16 15:38:32 mail2 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword: Child
> > 15764 
> > died with signal 11 
> 
> I suppose I should make checkpassword-reply not crash but rather tell
> more nicely when it doesn't find some environment that it expects. I see
> two possible reasons for the crash:
> 
> 1) Your checkpassword didn't set USER environment.
> 
> 2) Your checkpassword didn't set HOME environment.
> 
> What checkpassword binary/script are you using? In any case you should
> fix it to return those to environments.

Although neither of those really need to be set. I fixed this so that in
rc23 they're not required.

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